In school this year we have worked on an essay summarizing Huckleberry Finn and explaining a major plot behind the story. We have done a comparison between an online post by Arthur Miller of an article titled "Are You Now or Were You Ever?" and "We Now Know", an essay in response to Miller's. We have also done a descriptive essay on what it would be like to be in a dungeon in Salem and for the Scarlet Letter we did a review of the Custom House. All of these essays have been building up my ability to write formal essays and especially ones that compare things. I think that as the year has been progressing I have gotten better at picking out how two things might be similar and different. I have also seen myself doing this in other things such as History with essays concerning programs in the New Deal and how the Sedition Act of 1918 might have been a good or bad thing. I used everything I learned along with comparative skills that have been gradually displayed more and more in my works in English to do very well on these essays. I think the work I have recently done is a much better example of literature than what I was handing in at the beginning of the year. I think in the near future I am also going to make major advances with the addition of rhetorical devices to my work. Knowing the rhetorical devices and choosing the right times to use them will greatly help me in getting my message across. I think that up and coming essays will be much better than essays I have already written. The essays that I have already written were not great but they are going to get much better
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